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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-10-25T16·54+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2004-10-25T16·54+0000
commit37d7abd69402f0e7a78d4d2f2d78996409a8563a (patch)
treebf844e4486b0e055921583c4b7c2d3d843b34485 /src/libexpr/primops.cc
parentf4d44a002688262d33093494a7fea1bb11b97ac9 (diff)
* New language feature: with expressions.
  The expression `with E1; E2' evaluates to E2 with all bindings in
  the attribute set E1 substituted.  E.g.,

    with {x = 123;}; x

  evaluates to 123.  That is, the attribute set E1 is in scope in E2.

  This is particularly useful when importing files containing lots
  definitions.  E.g., instead of

    let {
      inherit (import ./foo.nix) a b c d e f;

      body = ... a ... f ...;
    }

  we can now say

    with import ./foo.nix;

    ... a ... f ...

  I.e., we don't have to say what variables should be brought into scope.

Diffstat (limited to 'src/libexpr/primops.cc')
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diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index 070ed1b54aa7..938d9bb8c13b 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static Expr primDerivation(EvalState & state, const ATermVector & _args)
         try {
             processBinding(state, value, ne, ss);
         } catch (Error & e) {
-            throw Error(format("while processing derivation attribute `%1%' at %2%:\n%3%")
+            throw Error(format("while processing the derivation attribute `%1%' at %2%:\n%3%")
                 % key % showPos(pos) % e.msg());
         }